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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: An aerial view of John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) on April 15, 2011 in the Jamaica neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Photo: Spencer Platt/2011 Getty Images

In what the New York Times calls "arguably the most significant loss of a transportation building in New York since Pennsylvania Station was razed in the early 1960s," Terminal Six at John F. Kennedy International Airport will be torn down. Designed by I. M. Pei, who along with his partners created the Javits Center, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the terminal was opened in 1969, and is credited as a great triumph in transparency and horizontal modernist design. The vacant space was said to cost the Port Authority $600,000 per year and is now "needed for the improvements that will better serve travelers and help reduce delays." At least part of it will become a parking lot.